Liquavista makes low-power, sunlight viewable displays using a technology called electrowetting. The company’s been showing off its technology for a few years, but even though Samsung acquired Liquvista in 2011, no commercial products featuring the team’s displays have been released yet. Now Amazon has acquired Liquavista from Samsung, which means the maker of the popular […]
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Orchard introduces Toughlet rugged tablet with sunlight viewable display
Orchard has introduced a new rugged tablet designed for outdoor use. It has a 7 inch Pixel Qi display which can function as a full color LCD display or a high contrast (nearly black and white) sunlight viewable display when the backlight is turned off. The current model has a 1.2 GHz Freescale iMX5 ARM […]
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Pixel Qi sunlight readable displays at CES 2012
Pixel Qi makes LCD displays that can be viewed outdoors in direct sunlight using nothing but ambient light. In full color LCD mode they still look better outdoors than a typical screen, but you can also cut the backlight entirely and use the screens in a high-contrast, nearly black and white mode that uses as […]
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Samsung could ship outdoor viewable Liquavista displays this year
If you’ve ever tried to use a laptop, iPad, or pretty much any other device with an LCD display outdoors on a sunny day, you know that most of today’s screens aren’t really designed for outdoor use. There’s no shortage of companies working on solutions, but one of the few that actually has a shot […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook ad shows 7 inch tablet in a good light
Research in Motion has put out the first 30 second TV spot for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and it does a pretty good job of showing the appeal of a 7 inch tablet with multitasking support. The commercial shows off the app-switching gesture support, which is probably one of the tablet’s key strengths. The tablet […]
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CPT showcases sunlight readable color display
CPT is showing off a new display technology in Taiwan that will let you view a full color display in direct sunlight. Oh yeah, it’s also described as a low power display, although CPT isn’t giving a lot of specifics. Netbook News reports that the new CPT screens should use about half the power of […]
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Liquavista’s low-power displays look good — even in direct sun
Liquavista’s color and monochrome screens have looked impressive in demos we’ve seen to date — but their performance in direct sunlight was still an unknown. That’s all changed now, as the folks at ARMDevices managed to secure a little outdoor time with the displays on a bright, sunshiney day. As you can see in the […]
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LG announces laptop display designed for outdoor use
Laptops are notoriously hard to use outdoors. Backlit displays are difficult to read in bright sunlight under the best conditions. And if you have a notebook with a glossy screen, you might as well be carrying around a mirror. But LG has announced a new technology that could be a game-changer. The company’s new LCD […]